XN000022-1988-03-16 — Page 8

6

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988

WITH ONE VOICE

"AND TO DO THAT EFFECTIVELY, WE NEED TO SPEAK ON THE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER,

SHE SAID.

ON

BOTH

THE

BRITISH

MISS DUNN ALSO CALLED GOVERNMENTS TO BE MORE SENSITIVE TO THE ANXIETIES AND THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG IN PREPARATION FOR A TRANSFER

TRADITION LONG A FROM A NATION DEMOCRATIC VALUE TO A MODERN SOCIALIST STATE.

WITH

ESTABLISHED

CHINESE

AND ASPIRATIONS OF

OF SOVEREIGNTY OF LIBERAL AND

IN 1988 "CHINA'S WELL PUBLICISED ATTITUDE TO DIRECT ELECTIONS

TO DEBATE THE AND RECENT STATEMENTS ABOUT THE RIGHT OF THIS COUNCIL DRAFT BASIC LAW HAVE NOT HELPED.

"EQUALLY, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S

TREATMENT OF SUCH ISSUES

QUESTION

AS VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND TOUGH BARGAINING OVER CALLED INTO

THEIR UNDERSTANDING

OF

DEFENCE COSTS HAVE HONG KONG'S SPECIAL

CONCERNS," SHE SAID.

PRAGMATISM GAINS WIDESPREAD SUPPORT

IN VIEW OF THE PRAGMATIC NATURE OF THE DECISIONS DEVELOPMENT, THE WHITE PAPER

HAS

GAINED

GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

THE ON

WIDESPREAD

ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE

FROM SUPPORT AND STRONG

THE

THIS WAS STATED BY DR THE HON HO KAM-FAI DURING THE THE WHITE PAPER IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MATTER OF FACT,

"AS

THE MARKETING A CONDUCTED A POLL AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE WHITE THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE RESPONDENTS ENDORSED DIRECT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1991," HE SAID.

DEBATE ON

DECISION

RESEARCH

PAPER AND FOUND ELECTIONS TO THE

THE

A YOUTH AGENCY, LIKEWISE "A SEPARATE SURVEY, CARRIED OUT BY

OF THE

ACCEPTED RESPONDENTS INDICATED THAT ALMOST 70 PER CENT TIMING OF DIRECT ELECTIONS AS RECOMMENDED IN THE WHITE PAPER.

DR HO SAID THE WHITE PAPER WOULD USHER HONG KONG OF DIRECT ELECTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY.

++

INTO AN ERA

AT THE

CHANGE IN THE GOVERNMENT "THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL, STRUCTURAL SYSTEM, AND IS THE SPEARHEAD OF THE DEMOCRATISATION PROCESS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL.

/"COMPARED WITH

E